CHARISMA Lab

Save the date!! ROBOT FRINGE coming up in London, July 2, 2026 !! An evening of human // robot // cyborg performances. #icsr2026 #detailssoon

What a great idea!

Nothing special to see, just a robot walking its robotic dog in Shanghai

📢 ICSR + Art 2026 – Deadline Extension Due to global circumstances and author requests, the paper submission deadline has been extended. ⏰ All deadlines follow AoE time. No further extensions planned. 🔗 icsr2026.uk/submission/ #ICSR2026 #SocialRobotics

@heatherknight Aww! Much puppy love This is my self-portrait:

Being a model is so much pressure 👠😅😓

Self-portrait

Tiny but Mighty: A Pocket-Sized Quadruped #Robot via @ZappyZappy7 #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology

Excited to announce the ROBOT FRINGE FESTIVAL 🎭🤖 JULY 2, 2026 in London @ University of London's Senate House, in the heart of central London! robotfringe.com Format hommages @edfringe and the theatrical origin of 'robot' by welcoming bold, experimental new works considering human-robot relations! 🤖😎🇬🇧 Submissions due: March 15 Selections announced: April 15 Curated and hosted by myself and @MirowskiPiotr of @GoogleDeepMind, w/ @icsr2026

The synchronised swimming scene from FOOTLIGHT PARADE in 1933. Chroeographed by Busby Berkeley. It's pretty hypnotic.

@heatherknight Love these! 🤖😿 Go state machines 😻🙀

Example flow diagram, from MIT AI Lab's Kismet

It's not DATA vs. MODELS anymore {#icra2025}... it's "How do we combine DATA+MODELS together?" Using behavioral flow-diagrams on top of modern Ai offers much flexibility, e.g., bio-inspired systems layered in with 3 dual-pole Darwin originated animal emotion encoders: Space{world3D, vectors-to-others,eek!WALL} / TIME[[and derivatives]] / Force((high intersect with characterization of environment, which can be static, semi-static, or chaos, and the robot doesn't get to decide -- that's how it works lil robot.)) Robots plan relative to agents&environment !! #LabanFeatures #BioRobotics #BodyIntelligence

🤖🎭 Robot Fringe 2026 | London Experimental robotics + daring performance + wild ideas, showcased at ICSR + Art 2026 (1–4 July). 📍 Senate House, London 🗓 Thu 2 July 2026 (evening) Hosted by Heather Knight & Piotr Mirowski Submission: 🔗 robotfringe.com #ICSR2026

They were sleeping, but the bird chose chaos. 🤣

Baby seal being introduced to water for the first time..🐾😍

@heatherknight @OregonState Feedback so far from general public.. "Reading a transcript of AI talking to a human with active listening skills and using NVC techniques is like the opposite of dystopian singularity myths and I’m here for it " 🫡 @jefforysimmons

Excited to share AI MS Project: "Designing Minimal VOICE-Human Interaction Systems" from Shrirang Patil, who just successfully completed the requirements for his degree!! It will be used in the Counseling Program AI orientation at @OregonState next academic year, operationalizing a PREP Veteran Rehabilitation Therapy technique to counseling microskills training. His finite-state-machine LLM-integrated SLT Tutor offers structured interaction and a game-based format. #gobeavs #ai #charismabot #SLTtutor #microskills #VOICE SLIDES: docs.google.com/presentation/d…

And anyone wearing that dress will automatically move as they walk. They’ll add a separate tiny motor so what we see actually becomes real

The parrot can perch on a desk or sit on your shoulder, cheering you on with its quirky voice and charming motions. (3/6)

Tired of designing task rewards? New work, PhysHOI, enable simulated humanoid to learn diverse basketball skills 🏀 purely from human demonstrations. Code available now! Site: wyhuai.github.io/physhoi-page/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2312.04393 Code/Data: github.com/wyhuai/PhysHOI

@TairanHe99 🤣🤣 nice!

Ever seen a humanoid robot serve beer without spilling a drop? Now you have. 🍻 Introducing Hold My Beer: learning gentle locomotion + stable end-effector control. lecar-lab.github.io/SoFTA/